Expanding Assisted Suicide: Legal Safeguards and Burdensome Obstacles

Posted February 22, 2018 1:00 am by Alex Schadenberg

This is part of the article written by Nancy Valko and published on her blog on February 21, 2018.Nancy ValkoBy Nancy ValkoAlready there are impatient calls to expand medically assisted suicide and euthanasia.Thaddeus Pope, JD, PhD, the influential Director of the Health Law Institute and Professor of Law at the Mitchell Hamline School of Law in Saint Paul, Minnesota and writer of the Medical Futility Blog, wrote an article last December titled “Medical Aid in Dying: When Legal Safeguards Become Burdensome Obstacles” for the American Society of Clinical Oncology Post. (According to ASCO, it “has taken no official position on